Monthly Archives: May 2010
Why is the personal income tax system so complicated?
It wasn't always this way. Recent budgets have seen a flowering of special credits – the employment amount, public transit amount, children's fitness amount, home buyer's amount, the textbook amount, just to name a few. More and more, support for Canadians in need comes through the income tax system. So now your tax return contains […]
Units
Nothing really new here (for most economists). Just the old story re-told. Back in high school, I figured out something neat about units. Both sides of an equation had to have the same units. Obvious now, but I thought it was neat, because it let me "cheat" on exams. If I was too lazy to […]
A preliminary estimate for Canadian 2010Q1 GDP growth
It's time to update my series of posts (2009Q1, 2009Q2, 2009Q3, 2009Q4) in which I try to take the GDP numbers from the first two months of a given quarter, mix them with the LFS numbers from the third month, and boldly produce what Statistics Canada dares not attempt: a preliminary estimate for quarterly GDP […]
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative 
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